In the Arab world, the challenge of achieving a sustainable future is compounded by political instability, deforestation, and the global climate emergency, among other factors. Shifting Sands presents five projects by young photographers from North Africa and the Middle East, each with a strong artistic vision, who poetically address, for different reasons and purposes, similar issues around the drastic transformation of the territory caused by human action. and the significant social, geopolitical and environmental repercussions that it entails.
With different approaches, intertwining photography, poetry, embroidery, calligraphy, sound, found objects and archival material, analogue and digital processes, each of the five essays on display contains a call to action: how we can use the earth sustainably, ensure the conservation of biodiversity and respect traditional ways of life while moving forward and embracing modernity.

shfting sand s is the winning project of the NUR نور (Light) call, organized for the third consecutive year by Casa Árabe and PHotoESPAÑA to give visibility and dissemination to photographic works that offer a new perspective on various aspects of Arab societies.

In the Arab world, the challenge of achieving a sustainable future is compounded by political instability, deforestation and the global climate emergency, among other factors. Shifting Sands presents five projects by young photographers from North Africa and the Middle East, each with a strong artistic vision, who poetically address, for different reasons and purposes, similar issues related to the drastic transformation of land caused by human activity and the significant social , geopolitical and environmental repercussions that it entails.

With different approaches, interweaving photography, poetry, embroidery, calligraphy, sound, found objects and archival material and analogue and digital processes, each of the five essays on display presents a call to action, asking how we can use the earth sustainably, ensuring biodiversity conservation and respect for traditional ways of life while advancing and embracing modernity.